---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designates a portion of the state highway system as the \"Gerard 'Jess' Fitzpatrick Memorial Bridge\""
description: "Designates the bridge on United States route 219, crossing the Cattaraugus creek, in the counties of Cattaraugus and Erie, as the \"Gerard 'Jess' Fitzpatrick Memorial Bridge\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 5913"
citation: "New York S 5913 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["YOUNG"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-05-05"
last_action: "2017-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55321f47-3c7a-4be1-bb34-fe3585592959"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S5913"
source_hash: "8bced618f5c5b02e0983a38abc56583e2d282b484903cbf5c71ba9bfa9d520a3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 5913 (2017-2018) — Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Gerard 'Jess' Fitzpatrick Memorial Bridge"

Designates the bridge on United States route 219, crossing the Cattaraugus creek, in the counties of Cattaraugus and Erie, as the "Gerard 'Jess' Fitzpatrick Memorial Bridge".

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S5913 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5913&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S5913 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S5913)

## Votes

- Transportation Vote — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **139–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- YOUNG — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-05-05** REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-16** 1ST REPORT CAL.970
- **2017-05-17** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2017-05-22** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2017-06-07** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-06-07** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-06-07** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-15** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7733
- **2017-06-15** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.306
- **2017-06-15** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-06-15** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-07-13** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-07-25** SIGNED CHAP.149 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55321f47-3c7a-4be1-bb34-fe3585592959`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).